Child behavioral health counselor to serve prison time for Medicaid fraud

A Georgia behavioral health counselor will serve six months in prison and 4.5 years on probation for submitting false claims to the state’s Medicaid program. 

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Antonio Lacey, a children’s counselor in Locust Grove, Ga., pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud on Aug. 15, according to a Sept. 28 news release from the Georgia attorney general’s office. 

Mr. Lacey paid $45,212 in restitution to the state for billing for services never provided. 

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